September 1940 finds the Halcyon catering to its well-healed guests as if the war wasn’t happening. As German bombers approach London, the kitchen staff is in full swing, preparing a wedding dinner and lamenting the lack of geese to use in the main course. Little do they know that the entre will soon be the … >
It’s a golden age of superhero television out there. Just look at the CW’s expansive DC universe that began with Arrow, that now encompasses four shows. Or there’s Netflix’s equally ambitious gambit with Marvel, which is about to come to a crescendo this year with The Defenders. Meanwhile, staples Agents of SHIELD, Gotham and Lucifer … >
This week’s Call the Midwife episode is all about the specific obstacles faced by those who are different in some way, whether it’s a couple with dwarfism anticipating the birth of their first child or a young man blinded in an accident before he even gets to see his newborn baby. Because there are two main subplots … >
Look, I’m not going to lie to you. I watch Taboo every week and, even at the halfway point, I still don’t have a handle on it. I’m not entirely sure what’s going on or where it’s all going, and the moment I think I do the show throws a curveball with psychic sex, orgasms … >
ITV’s fast-moving crime drama grips the audience by twists and turns around the life of the deceased David Walker. All key suspects in the case seem to have a reason to see him dead. A child sex abuse scandal unfolds and it looks like he was involved in shady acts from the past. Our detective … >
ITV’s Tina and Bobby concludes tonight with an episode that highlights the tumultuous final years of the couple’s relationship, including business failures, Bobby’s retirement from football and the eventual end of the couple’s marriage. “Welcome to Morlands,” exclaims Tina (Michelle Keegan), in the episode’s opening moments, as she invites her friends into the couple’s lavish … >
Lev Grossman’s trilogy TV adaptation is back for its second season and I, for one, cannot be happier. The first season finale left fans hanging on by their fingernails as the team from Brakebills has their showdown with the Big Bad Martin Chatwin. He dispatches them quickly enough, even Alice, who has levelled up to … >
“Life is hard in Fortitude,” says series creator Simon Donald, and after the events of Season 1, it’s difficult not to agree with him. Sky Atlantic’s Arctic horror series Fortitude returns for its second season, revealing the aftermath of the prehistoric wasp attack that threatened to tear the town apart and setting out new threats … >
“I can’t plead biology. Sex may be an animal pleasure but adultery, I’m discovering, is a human one.” Westminster is a place that has seen many historic speeches, political scandals and let’s be honest, a few extra marital quickies too. It is in these famous halls Yvonne (Emily Watson) meets a confident stranger determined to be … >
‘Gloriana’ feels as though it’s been constructed as the series finale to a different programme. Consider the ending of the show. Elizabeth’s final scene, now named Elizabeth Regina rather than Elizabeth Windsor, feels like it’s supposed to be this great milestone; akin, perhaps, to the first time a superhero puts on their costume and takes … >